Gregg Turner is alive and well in Santa Fe, and playing the hits

Laurie Anderson’s shrunk her setup and grown her sound

By Marisa Demarco

Though "Dirtday!" was initially intended to be an instrumental work, lyrics started creeping in—then a narrative, then a flood of them. "It's a long shaggy dog of a story that goes between politics, economics, dreamscapes, theories, personal stories, and it's glued together by this weird violin."